bush talking about the promises they made to cut spending and they didn't. >> yeah, when do the ads go up. before the fiscal cliff talks or just afterwards? >> they went up actually on new year's eve. and it's basically just to remind everyone of the campaign promises that they made over the course of the past year, i mean, look the at president obama, and we'll take him as an example, when he first came into office back in 2009, the debt was 10 trillion dollars and he promised to cut it by half before the end of the first term and here we are, 16.4 trillion dollars later. same thing for george w. bush, he came into office back in 2001 when the debt was 5 trillion dollars, said he would cut by 2 trillion dollars and didn't quite get that done. >> tucker: so you make a point you don't often hear made at least among small government advocates in washington. it's a bipartisan, it's not just the obama administration, it's going on for a long time. >> both parties are responsible for it, and i think this is an issue that we have to forget who the messenger is. at the end of the day, this bu